How to buy Landec Corporation stock | $10.94

Landec Corporation is a packaged foods business based in the US. Landec Corporation shares (LNDC) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Landec Corporation employs 796 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$587.3 million.

How to buy shares in Landec Corporation

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2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Landec Corporation. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: LNDC. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Landec Corporation reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$10.94, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Landec Corporation, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Landec Corporation. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

Landec Corporation share price

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Landec Corporation shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-12-25.

Latest market close	USD$10.94
52-week range	USD$7.48 - USD$11.89
50-day moving average	USD$10.5186
200-day moving average	USD$9.9243
Wall St. target price	USD$14
PE ratio	N/A
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$-0.159

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Landec Corporation price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $10.94 from 2020-12-18

1 week (2021-01-08)	1.86%
1 month (2020-12-16)	-0.45%
3 months (2020-10-15)	5.60%
6 months (2020-07-15)	23.06%

1 year (2020-01-15)	-1.35%
2 years (2019-01-15)	-6.66%
3 years (2018-01-12)	12.8
5 years (2016-01-15)	0.64%

Is Landec Corporation under- or over-valued?

Valuing Landec Corporation stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Landec Corporation's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Landec Corporation's PEG ratio

Landec Corporation's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 22.95. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Landec Corporation's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Landec Corporation's EBITDA

Landec Corporation's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$10 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Landec Corporation's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Landec Corporation financials

Revenue TTM	USD$587.3 million
Gross profit TTM	USD$72 million
Return on assets TTM	-0.94%
Return on equity TTM	-18.27%
Profit margin	-7.56%
Book value	$7.563
Market capitalisation	USD$291.1 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Landec Corporation shares

There are currently 1.1 million Landec Corporation shares held short by investors – that's known as Landec Corporation's "short interest". This figure is 0.6% down from 1.1 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Landec Corporation shares can be evaluated.

Landec Corporation's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Landec Corporation's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Landec Corporation shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Landec Corporation shares traded daily (recently around 131093.85150812). Landec Corporation's SIR currently stands at 8.62. In other words for every 100,000 Landec Corporation shares traded daily on the market, roughly 8620 shares are currently held short.

However Landec Corporation's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Landec Corporation shares, or, against the total number of tradable Landec Corporation shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Landec Corporation's short interest could be expressed as 0.04% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Landec Corporation shares in existence, roughly 40 shares are currently held short) or 0.0433% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Landec Corporation shares, roughly 43 shares are currently held short).

A SIR below 10% would generally be considered to indicate a fairly optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Landec Corporation.

Find out more about how you can short Landec Corporation stock.

Landec Corporation share dividends

We're not expecting Landec Corporation to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Landec Corporation share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Landec Corporation's shares have ranged in value from as little as $7.48 up to $11.89. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Landec Corporation's is 1.0499. This would suggest that Landec Corporation's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Landec Corporation overview

Landec Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and sells differentiated health and wellness products for food and biomaterials markets. It operates through Curation Foods and Lifecore segments. The Curation Foods segment engages in processing, marketing, and selling of vegetable-based salads, and fresh-cut and whole vegetable products primarily under the Eat Smart brand, O branded olive oils and wine vinegars, and Yucatan and Cabo Fresh guacamole and avocado food products, as well as various private labels. It serves retail grocery chains, club stores, and food service operators. The Lifecore segment engages in the manufacture of pharmaceutical-grade sodium hyaluronate (HA) in bulk form, as well as formulated and filled syringes and vials for injectable products used in treating a range of medical conditions and procedures. It also provides services, including technology transfer, material component changes, analytical method development, formulation development, pilot studies, stability studies, process validation, and production of materials for clinical studies to its partners for HA-based and non-HA based aseptically formulated and filled products. This segment sells its non-HA products for medical use primarily in the ophthalmic, orthopedic, and other markets. It sells its products directly to partners in the medical device and pharmaceutical markets. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Landec Corporation is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 2.658% of Landec Corporation shares are held by insiders and 94.717% by institutions.

• How many people work for Landec Corporation?

  Latest data suggests 796 work at Landec Corporation.

• When does the fiscal year end for Landec Corporation?

  Landec Corporation's fiscal year ends in May.

• Where is Landec Corporation based?

  Landec Corporation's address is: 5201 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA, United States, 95054

• What is Landec Corporation's ISIN number?

  Landec Corporation's international securities identification number is: US5147661046

• What is Landec Corporation's CUSIP number?

  Landec Corporation's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 514766104